How Read a Files Through VB.Net & C#

Reading and writing files are two of the most common tasks in the world of development. As a .NET developer, .NET Framework makes it easy to perform these tasks.

Before you start, have to import System.IO.

[VB.Net]

Imports System.IO

[C#]

using System.IO;

1.Reading File

There are different ways that you can use them for reading file,

if you want to read a whole file as string, this ways could be fine for you:

[VB.Net]

 Dim Result As String = File.ReadAllText("C:\CodingTips.txt")

[C#]

string Result = File.ReadAllText("C:\\CodingTips.txt");

if you need more properties and futures ,

same as searching specific text in the file, I suppose  this ways is more  efficient:
[VB.Net]

 Private Sub Readfile()
        Dim strReader As StreamReader = File.OpenText("C:\CodingTips.txt")
        ' We will Search the stream until we reach the end or find the specific string.
        While Not strReader.EndOfStream
            Dim line As String = strReader.ReadLine()
            If line.Contains("Code") Then
                'If we find the specific string, we will inform the user and finish the while loop.
                Console.WriteLine("Found Code:")
                Console.WriteLine(line)
                Exit While
            End If
        End While
        ' Here we have to clean the memory.
        strReader.Close()
    End Sub

[C#]

private void Readfile()
{
    StreamReader strReader = File.OpenText("C:\\CodingTips.txt");
    // We will Search the stream until we reach the end or find the specific string.
    while (!strReader.EndOfStream) {
        string line = strReader.ReadLine();
        if (line.Contains("Code")) {
            //If we find the specific string, we will inform the user and finish the while loop.
            Console.WriteLine("Found Code:");
            Console.WriteLine(line);
            break; // TODO: might not be correct. Was : Exit While
        }
    }
    // Here we have to clean the memory.
    strReader.Close();
}

In the next post I will teach you , How to write a file 🙂